Service de Renseignement de l'État
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '33.2 " N , 6 ° 7' 1.9" E
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| Supervisory authority (s) | Parliamentary Committee under the Prime Minister of Luxembourg | ||
| Consist | since 1960 | ||
| Headquarters | 207-211 Route d'Esch, Luxembourg | ||
| Authority management | Doris Woltz (since 2016) | ||
| Employee | approx. 60 | ||
The Service de Renseignement de l'État (abbreviated SRE ), often also Service de Renseignement de l'État du Luxembourg ( SREL ), is the intelligence service of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . In the vernacular it is often referred to in Luxembourgish as "Spëtzeldéngscht", in High German "spy service".
Its purpose is to collect and analyze information in order to prevent a threat to the Luxembourg territory, its allies or international institutions based in Luxembourg. This includes the endangerment of critical infrastructure , in particular the energy and water supply, road traffic and information technology .
The service was restructured in 2004 under the pressure of the " war on terror " resulting from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . The following threats are specifically mentioned in the law establishing an intelligence service (Loi du 15 juin 2004 portant organization du Service de Renseignement de l'Etat) :
- Preparing and carrying out terrorist attacks
- espionage
- Interference by foreign states in national affairs
- Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
- Organized crime if it is related to any of the above threats
- Security checks of people who come into contact with confidential information at work (government, public administration)
- worldwide monitoring and decryption of electronic communications.
The service, which is also subordinate to the director of the SRE, decides on the confidentiality levels of documents and monitors compliance with them.
The service, which has no police powers but can only act preventively, is subordinate to the Prime Minister and is subject to control by a parliamentary control commission.
The executive director has been Doris Woltz since January 1, 2016. Her predecessor was Patrick Heck from 2010 to 2015.
In the course of the legal processing of a series of unsolved bombings in the mid-1980s, usually referred to as the bombing affair , dubious practices of the Luxembourg secret service that had persisted for years became known. In July 2013, the final report of a committee of inquiry that had been set up six months earlier was published: The report assigned Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker the political responsibility for the uncontrolled activities of the SREL. As it turned out, Juncker himself had been a victim of these practices in 2007, as the then intelligence chief Marco Mille had secretly recorded a conversation between him and Juncker. On July 10, 2013 Juncker announced new elections in the wake of the affair.
Web links
- The SRE - Official Site
- Sûreté Extérieure et Service de Renseignement - The legal basis (French, PDF, 91 kB)
- “Just save the world for a moment” , report in the FAZ
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Graf: SPËTZELDÉNGSCHT: concealing a job. December 6, 2012, accessed March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Government threatens to end. July 7, 2013, accessed July 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Juncker announces his resignation. (No longer available online.) RTL.lu, July 10, 2013, archived from the original on July 11, 2013 ; Retrieved July 11, 2013 .